Safe Detroit

When I decided to start the ‘Safe Bet’ category for Safe Detroit, Louisiana Creole Gumbo was the first restaurant that came to mind. I’ve been to Louisiana Creole Gumbo countless times in the last eight years and I’ve never been disappointed.
Louisiana Creole Gumbo offers authentic New Orleans style dishes at very reasonable prices. I’m all […]

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We’ve all seen the pickup trucks and other vehicles around the city collecting scrap metal to sell to the scrap yards. This is a good thing, if done legally and respectfully. It helps clean up the city and eliminates tons and tons of potentially dangerous metal from our streets.
The problem is when the scrap collection […]

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The street corners of Detroit have long been the preferred marketing spot for the con artists and low-lives. Sound harsh? I hate to take this hardened view of our streets but until we face the truth and deal with it head on nothing will change.
Detroit’s street corners and intersections are besieged with panhandlers, prostitutes and […]

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Sitting here in my warm office with a fireplace going nearby and the furnace set at a comfortable level it’s hard to believe it’s 4°F and well below zero with the wind chill as I write this post. Can you imagine it being that cold in your home? It may be hard to imagine living […]

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Back in early 2004, a large group of local government and private organizations came together to form Fresh Start, A Wayne County prostitution and drug rehabilitation program. Project Fresh Start is a prostitution reform initiative designed to get prostitutes off the streets, cleaned up and living better drug-free lives.
Rather than simply charging convicted prostitutes with […]

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Welcome to SafeDetroit.com. I’m excited to get this project started again. I made an embarrassingly feeble attempt last year and it was a huge failure. I’m hoping that as a Blog, with a little more work and the help of others perhaps Safe Detroit will become an asset to the people Detroit and surrounding communities.
I’m […]

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